On Wednesday 2007-05-30 14:34, Pueblo Native wrote: [...] > I'm not completely biased against commercial software, but it would > depend upon circumstances. I'm sure your going to have some people > scratching their heads asking why they would delete publisher and > purchase another program (as opposed to a free download like > OpenOffice).
Publisher is probably the worst part of the Microsoft Office suite. It just doesn't work for reasonably serious work or for things Microsoft touts as the target uses of Publisher. I wrote earlier about the lame web page export from publisher. My wife also designed some postcard mailers for her business using publisher. Don't let those registration marks in the output fool you -- the output from Publisher is completely unusable at every professional bulk printing service we tried. Output to postscript and/or converting that to PDF does not improve Publisher output usability either. In the end I did her postcards in OpenOffice. The only sticking point was determining exactly the page size to use. Once that was solved the OOo PDF files were good everywhere we tried to print them and the finished results were perfect. Publisher is unsuitable for anything other than the most simple DTP projects that you will output directly to your own printer. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
